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The Supreme Court
today ruled that abortion

is completely a private
matter to be decided

by mother and doctor

in the first three months of pregnancy.

The 7-2 ruling to that
effect will probably result

in a drastic overhaul of
state laws on abortion.

Specifically the court today overturned

laws in Texas and Georgia
and ruled the government

- has no right to enter...
- I couldn't get any work done.

... a decision which should be made

- by the mother and her doctor.
- They're winning.

During the second three
months of pregnancy...

_

It's a great decision because
it puts right on the line

that a woman has the right
to remain pregnant or not.

It gives freedom of choice.

I respect the conscience of
those who oppose abortion

on moral grounds.

I do not believe that
they have the right

to deprive other women of abortion.

Abortion may be legally permissible.

It is still morally wrong.

I cannot believe it.

- You heard the news?
- I know.

Roe v. Wade. It's the law of the land.

I was in the Supreme Court
during oral arguments.

Oh, my God. You're Betty Friedan.

I am.

Your book... it changed my life.

Can I hug you?

Well... please.

- Aw.
- Thank you, Gloria Steinem!

Oh.

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Tomorrow you'll meet

a crowned head of Europe and marry.

I will have a fat attack.

Eat 300 peanut butter cups and die.

You know, now that
you're my upstairs neighbor,

I feel like I'm Mary
coming up to visit Rhoda.

- Oh, Mary never visits Rhoda.
- Never? Why?

Why?

Rhoda, I'm running...

You're going out in that blouse?

Mom, it's just a blouse.

That you can wear when
you turn 18. No, 20.

Where did you get that?

Noreen doesn't wear it anymore,

so she gave it to me.

Change now, please.

They share clothes now.

Looked expensive.

Carl loves spending
money on his new wife...

Money I made from my book.

You know, it makes him feel superior.

You know, I may have someone for you...

Friend of Leon's, divorced,
two children, grown.

Oh, maybe. When I get back

from the Women's Caucus Convention.

You seen any of them since Miami?

I shouldn't have slammed
Gloria and Bella in the press.

They slammed you right back.
Didn't they convince Nora Ephron

to write that bitchy account of you
for "Esquire"?

Nora doesn't need convincing
to write something bitchy.

Oh, well...

And is that what everybody thinks?

That I'm the Wicked Witch of the West,

and Gloria is Glinda?

No one thinks that.

You know, somebody should tell Nora

that the real Wicked
Witch of the movement

is that Phyllis "Schafly" woman.

She the one that
looks like Dolly Parton?

- What's the name of her group?
- No.

She's the other one from Illinois.

Oh, the one with the "STOP"
signs and the blonde beehive?

- She is terrifying.
- And I do not buy

for one second that she's a real blonde.

The ERA is in danger,

and everyone is too busy fawning
over Gloria to listen to me.

It's absurd!

Are they so blinded by all the hair?

So make them listen.

You're Betty Friedan, for chrissake.

_

Oh, thanks.

- Thank you.
- Well, you know who is

a rising star in the Republican Party?

Audrey here,

and I have recruited her
to run for Vice President

of the national caucus.

I do not know if I'm a rising star,

but I definitely stand out.

- You were raised Republican?
- No.

And my folks were
not too happy about it.

You know, I told you,
you did not need to bring a fur coat.

Well, I hauled it all the way down here.

I'm not taking it off.

But now you're schvitzing
all over the place.

- Schvitzing?
- What? I'm trying.

Schvitzing?

Oh. Oh, we should bring Betty over.

You think?

So she wants to be Mother Superior.

She's earned it. We were
in the wilderness for 40 years.

She lit a match.

Shirley! I wasn't sure
if you were coming.

Hello, everybody.

- Shirley.
- Shirley, Betty.

- Oh.
- This is Audrey.

Are you okay? You don't look yourself.

- Is it the investigation?
- Ugh. It's been a long year.

You need a lawyer,
I can get you some names.

It's just outrageous.
It's a witch hunt, you know.

Investigating you for
misuse of campaign funds

instead of Nixon.

I bet you're having a great time
at the White House right now.

- It isn't dull.
- So can you tell us which

of his advisors they'll
be calling to testify?

Who do you think?

Well, my money is
on Haldeman and Erlichman.

Of course. German.

Yes.

You know who the government
should be looking into...

- Phyllis "Schafly."
- Schlafly.

I was inspired by Woodward and Bernstein

to do some digging into the funding

of her STOP ERA operations,

and you'll never guess
what I discovered.

She's a member of
the John Birch Society.

Do you think someone like her

will care if she gets called a Bircher?

You'll have to do better than that.

Well, no, but if she's a Bircher,
there's a good chance

that she's got some white
sheets in her closet.

But we don't have proof.

And they don't exactly share
their membership rolls.

Well, we should use our
resources to find evidence.

Take her down.

That is exactly what the men
with money want us to do.

They use women as a cover
to orchestrate a catfight

to distract everyone

so they can sit in dark
rooms and smoke cigars

and count their money.

The smartest thing for us to do
is not engage with her at all.

It'll only create more headlines.

I agree. Gloria's right.

We should stick to the program,
as they say in Weight Watchers.

Like you would know what
they say at Weight Watchers.

Can we all make a pact

right here and now not to
give her the time of day?

Huh.

Betty.

Fine. I agree.

I only show up when my help is needed.

Phyllis "Schafly"

did not get this money from
her housekeeping money.

I have found evidence that she
and her STOP ERA organization

received funding from
the John Birch Society,

and I believe she has ties to...

the Ku Klux Klan.

Yes, this is she.

Yes.

Who?

Oh, good morning.

Funded by the Birch Society?
I'm sorry, what?

The Klan? Oh, no.

Uh, this charge is ridiculous.

I have not, uh, received
a dime from any organization,

unlike... well, that's all...

No, wait. Here's a quote.

I hope Ms. Friedan keeps investigating,

because it keeps her out of trouble.

Sorry, when...
when's this article coming out?

All right. Thank you for calling.

This is terrific news.

Betty Friedan,
the most famous of the libbers,

is attacking me in the press.

I thought Gloria Steinem
was the most famous libber.

Well, the point is that
they are acknowledging

that we are a force to be reckoned with.

But isn't it kind of awful?

I don't wanna be associated
with the John Birch society

or the Klan or any racist groups.

No, the John Birch Society is...
is not a-a racist group.

It's anti-communist.

- Exactly.
- Anyway, doesn't matter,

because we're...
we're not affiliated with anybody.

You're not suggesting
that I'm prejudiced.

- I...
- No, no, of course not.

No one thinks that.
The libbers lie all the time.

And they're getting even more desperate

- now that we're winning.
- That's right.

If people only knew how
close you are with Willie...

You taught her daughter how to read.

But is it possible some
of the state chapters

are taking money from these groups?

Maybe Mary Frances?

Alice, now you know I run a tight ship.

Of course you do.

All right. Well, I will, uh,
I will talk to her just in case.

- Good.
- Now the fact is that

the libbers are running scared.

They have not a single good
argument to make for the ERA,

so they're launching this,
uh, smear campaign.

My husband and I are
John Birch Society members.

Well, I... Well,
that... that's your right,

and I think maybe you should
just keep that to yourself.

Now this article is coming out tomorrow,

so we need to make a few hundred copies

and send them out to all our chapters

and every radio news program,

'cause we need to let
them know that the, uh,

women's lib leaders are making

these ludicrous attacks against me.

I'll just go and fill this up.

All right. Let's get to it, huh?

- Oh.
- No, I can... I can wait.

Please. Go ahead.

The article will call
attention to the fact

that even though thousands
of lives will be saved,

abortion isn't affordable
for poor women.

My pitch is also about abortion.

I know we're all eager
to write about Roe,

but we should at least
have a couple of articles

about other areas of the movement.

But it's all I can think about.

Margaret, you have something?

I would like to explore the idea

of tokenism in the workplace.

This phenomenon that
happens where one minority

is propped up to cover the experience

of an entire population.

Like the white population,
we are diverse within ourselves.

What does that mean,
diverse within ourselves?

There is not a monolithic
black experience.

Wait. Sorry, you're not
saying you feel that way here.

Uh, look at our latest issue.

No. No, not at all.

If you ever feel that way,
you should say something.

- There's no hierarchy here.
- Right.

I've been doing a lot of research
about a new organization

that just sprang up... STOP ERA.

Phyllis Schlafly and a
bunch of housewives

take bread to legislators.

God, yes, we know about the bread.

My feelings exactly.

I know, but now...

I don't think we should
give her any airtime at all.

I know, but now that Betty's
been invited to debate her...

What?

At Illinois State University.

- Excuse me?
- How can I help you?

"Ms." Magazine. How can I help you?

What's going on with the phones?

"Ms." Magazine.

What?

Where did you get this number?

Which magazine?

No, you're not gonna find
anyone to lick your balls.

I'm wearing a...

I guess you could
say it's a coral sweater.

Excuse me?

Oh.

Can we get a copy of "Screw" Magazine?

Yeah...

I was leading the same kind of life

that all of us were supposed
to be leading at that time.

You know, I had my three children.

- Mm-hmm.
- And I'd had a newspaper job

and been fired because I was pregnant,

and I wasn't even aware or conscious

of the women's problem.

I thought there was something
wrong with me because

I-I didn't have an orgasm
waxing the kitchen floor.

I'm...

How did you come to write
"The Feminine Mystique"?

I was feeling that my education at Smith

hadn't prepared me for
being just a housewife.

So I decided to send out a questionnaire

to my fellow Smith alumni
to find out if anyone else

- felt like freaks in the suburbs.
- Did you have any idea

that your book would
have the effect it did?

You know, it was like
everybody was waiting

to have it put into words...
The problem that has no name.

- And so what...
- Well, seems like you got

a runaway best-seller on your hands.

And it seems like you have
a habit of interrupting.

Do you know what I do if
my husband interrupts me?

I say the word "orgasm" 10
times in a row, and it gets...

So it shuts him right up.

- Well, I think it...
- Orgasm.

Orgasm.

Orgasm. Orgasm.
Orgasm. Orgasm.

Orgasm. Orgasm. Orgasm. Orgasm.

And I'm growing even more impassioned,

completely unaware that the
strap of my dress had broken

and my boob was hanging out.

And... Well,
you can imagine the pictures

that ran in the press the next day.

- Oh, I can.
- You know?

And I am.

So I will say that that kind of press

was invaluable in getting out the word.

Oh, I will never forget
watching that march

down 5th Avenue, women, arms linked.

Yes. When I got up to speak
to the crowd at Bryant Park,

it suddenly hit me that
down through the generations

through history, our ancestors prayed,

"I thank thee, Lord,
I was not created a woman,"

and I said, from this day forward,

women all over the world
will be able to say,

"I thank thee, Lord,
I was created a woman."

You know,
there's a saying in Pirkei Avot...

"Every assembly that is
for a hallowed purpose

shall in the end be established."

I feel that mission strongly, yeah.

Uh, well, I'm gonna have another.
You want another?

Next week,
I'm going all the way to Bloomington

to debate Phyllis "Schafly."

- You've heard of her, yeah?
- No.

Well, you will soon.
She's very media-savvy.

Everyone else underestimates her

because she looks like a Barbie doll,

but she opens her mouth and
sounds like George Wallace.

So it's up to me

to go save the ERA from
her specious arguments.

And I'm sure Gloria
thinks it's a mistake.

Gloria Steinem... I have heard of her.

- Yeah.
- What's she like in real life?

Oh, why is everyone
so infatuated with her?

I think it is because she's very pretty.

Mm. Eh.

So have you ever been to Bloomington?

It's a shithole.

I can say that because I'm from Peoria.

Peoria. Peoria is very goyish.

I bet you grew up drinking lime soda.

Yeah, yeah.

All... All my friends got into
the sorority in high school,

and I didn't, of course, being Jewish.

So they dropped me.

You might wanna
look at it in your office.

It's okay.

_

Thanks, Dad.

I won't be home for dinner.

Oh, you've been out
every night this week.

Where are you going?

Sweetheart, the man has got plans.

- Thanks.
- Have fun.

If you are seeing someone that
you have to sneak around with,

the chances are you shouldn't be
seeing her in the first place.

I'm not.

Well, then where are you going?

Church, okay?

Tommy asked me to play at his wedding.

I've been practicing on
the church's organ at night

when no one's there.

Ready?

Oh. You think they'll
have us facing each other.

Well, that's how we did it at Harvard.

All right, what... what do I do if, uh,

Ms. Friedan brings up
the John Birch Society?

Deny and deflect,
just like you did in '67.

Even better,
go on the attack and accuse her

of being a... a member
of the, uh, Radicalesbians...

- Mm-hmm.
- Or whatever they're calling themselves

these days, and using the ERA

to make it legal for
homosexuals to marry.

Well, that's good,

but she's actually the only one of them

who has disavowed the homosexuals.

- Hmm.
- And she called them the, uh,

"Lavender Menace."

That's clever.

But I could accuse
her of pushing the ERA

to enshrine abortion on
demand in the Constitution.

Not the right crowd.

- It's important.
- Not the right crowd.

So I'll be Betty.

Oh. Betty, you're...
You're quite handsome.

First, you'll each get
an opening statement.

Well, I have a-a good,
uh, joke, uh, to start.

It's, uh, comparing the ERA

to trying to kill a fly
with a sledgehammer.

So you're probably not

going to kill a fly,
but you almost surely will

break up some of the furniture.

- You don't think that's funny?
- I do,

uh, but Betty doesn't.

Oh.

So let's start with the draft.

Right, well, Congress, uh,
currently has the power

to exempt women from the draft,
but the ERA would unfairly

take away that power, and,
uh, send our daughters

into the front lines, uh,
into combat duty...

But, uh, earlier this year,
the Secretary of Defense

announced the end of the draft.

Yes, but there are
already bills in Congress

to reinstate the draft.

Now, um, I don't know
anybody who has the solution

to any wars for all time.

So the question is,

do we want women to be
treated just like men?

Uh, Vietnam, uh,

did you see any women running
to the draft board, saying,

"I want my equal rights to be
drafted just like the men"?

Well, that's a distracting argument.

No, I think it's a crucial
argument, because...

If the ERA passes,
and they do reinstate the draft...

- Mm-hmm?
- Women would not be forced

to go to war because the military

has the right to determine
who goes into combat.

Yes, but they wouldn't be able
to make those determinations

on the basis of sex.
It would be unconstitutional.

Fine.

Let's, uh...

you say that the ERA will take away

the rights of, uh, full-time homemakers.

- That's right.
- But...

Since it is the woman who has the baby.

So our current law recognizes this fact,

and it allows the woman her
right to stay in her home

with her baby and be
supported by the husband.

That is not the law. That is the norm.

Yes, but the law clearly
places the financial burden

- on the husband.
- When your father lost his job,

did the law protect your mother?

Fred...

Betty Friedan doesn't know about that...

Didn't she have to go
out and get two jobs

just to keep food on the table?

You're not being fair.

It's... I'm making a point.
It's a debate. Fight back.

- Stop...
- Did the law protect your mother?

- Stop it.
- Who took her privileges away?

I said stop it. You're just trying
to make me emotional.

See, that's how you win a debate.

Why aren't you at your lesson?

Aunt Eleanor said I
didn't have to go in.

Well, it's not up to Aunt Eleanor.

Come on. Your swim teacher's waiting.

Well, Anne wasn't up for it today.

When you were in Philadelphia,
she had a scare in the pool.

Well, the longer she waits,
the harder it will be.

- I don't want to.
- Let her take her time.

Fear will not be something
that stops my child.

Now fear is not gonna stop you.

All right.

Aah!

See? Now it's done.

You did great, sweetheart.

Yeah. You really did.

It's not even you.

That is me. She has my hair.
She has my face, my aviators.

And my labia.

Well, I had a few blissful months

of feeling I had control over my body.

Hi. It's the copy of the
cease and desist letter

I sent to Al Goldstein's office.

That should shut him up.

The damage is done.
He can't take back that I saw it.

Could you also send a
cease and desist letter

to Betty's apartment?

I don't understand how
a respected university

invites Betty Friedan to
share the stage with a woman

who gets her funding from
the Birchers and the Klan.

She couldn't prove it, and no one cares.

It could go well.
Betty's a force of nature.

She will terrorize her.

The problem is the press
follows Betty wherever she is.

Phyllis will get media attention,

which is what she's after.
It's a mistake.

- So stop her.
- Me? You stop her.

It's not my attention she's after.

We're a political movement,
not a sorority.

Every time I reach a hand out to her,

I pull back a bloody stump.

Well, get used to it.
Men are gonna try and tear you down,

and women are gonna compete with you,

and you have to deal with both.

What I would give to
write a book that women

talk about like they talk about
"The Feminine Mystique."

I would retire to the Hamptons

and listen to the waves crashing.

You're gonna be late for your lunch.

Can you try and get
Betty Friedan on the phone

- when I get back?
- Sure.

Don't try too hard.

- Mom?
- Hmm?

Please don't make a scene.

If she didn't want a scene,

then she shouldn't
have given you a blouse

that's only appropriate

for a certain type of grown-up woman.

Betty, it's so nice to see you.

Loved your last column.

Who is this mystery man you
went on a blind date with?

Oh, it was just a one-time thing.

You know, he hasn't called.

Anyway, he wasn't my type.

Men. I'm so happy you came
to the door this time.

I've been meaning to tell you,
you hear these horror stories.

The kids always hate the new wife,

but Emily has been wonderful,
and I know that comes from you.

I hope it's okay I said that.

Mom?

I love you.

I love you more.

Natalie.

Hi.

Uh, oh, I sneak up here
sometimes to water the plants.

Betty has a black thumb.

I live in the apartment below.
We're... We're good friends.

Are you still at "Harper's"?

Yes, but if you ever
start a style section,

I would be happy to consult.

Just know that I am
a very expensive hire.

I... I really need to speak to Betty.

I've been calling and calling.

Oh, she's traveling to the debate.

- Do you know which hotel she...
- Well, she didn't mention.

Okay, well... thanks.

Betty knows what she's doing.

It's just we all agreed on a...

Who agreed? You and... and Bella?

We try and work with her,
but she can be...

She has a difficult personality.

Maybe you don't see that side
of her because you're friends.

Oh, no. No, Betty is impossible.

But without her, there's no NOW,

no Women's Political Caucus, no NARAL.

We get to do what we do
because she risked everything.

So before you tell her
what she can and cannot do,

consider just saying... thank you.

I'd better get back to the office.

It was good to run into you.

Yeah.

♪ I know a place ♪

♪ Ain't nobody crying ♪

It's 15 of y'all. Tell me I'm wrong.

I don't want nobody crying
that they didn't get a slice.

Can I have mine with vanilla frosting?

What are you teaching this little girl?

You know what, honey?

You go with your mom
to "Ms." and have all

the vanilla frosting you want, okay?

Then we'll listen to a
record by The Beatles.

- Why?
- Well, hey there, Carol Brady.

So how are things at the magazine?

Ah. Gloria says they're struggling.

They have an East Side
office with outdoor carpeting

so your feet can feel
good before going inside.

Mm! I wanna struggle like that.

You want some milk, honey?

Yes, ma'am.

Now look, she's so precious.

- She is.
- Isn't she good?

Oh, thanks, girl.

Hey, girl. We got cake out there.

- Hey, y'all.
- Hi.

- I just cut the cake.
- All right.

'Cause we don't want white
women to align with us.

- Ugh. Here she goes again.
- Don't start.

Would you like a slice?

- Thanks, girl.
- Oh, no, thank you.

Don't get duped into working
with an alien political project.

You know, I never confuse
a lawn mower with a shoe.

Hmm? Both are useful

as long as you don't
mistake one for the other.

Hmm?

We can get along with white feminists.

You know, I don't have
a problem with Margaret

and her kind, but their kind of talk

puts gender before race.

Wait a minute. Margaret's kind?

If we include lesbians,
we're not gonna get support

from the Black Power movement.

You've got to be kidding me.

You wanna talk about it?
Let's talk about it.

There will be no
"Lavender Menace" bullshit here.

Lesbians are welcome.

Horizontal hostility is not.

♪ Ain't nobody crying ♪

Where's my milk?

Oh, shit, I'm sorry, baby.

Tell everybody what you say
whenever the kids at school

ask you why your mama is gay.

I say, "Why is your mom straight?"

Gimme five.

Oh, Doris can start her
own damn organization

because we embrace everyone in this one.

- That's right.
- You call this an organization?

It's just this... Sundays at Flo's.

Well, you think you can do better?

I am sick and tired of y'all bitches

always talking
'bout y'all need to form somethin'.

You wanna form somethin'?
Go on then. Form it.

You must be Betty Friedan.

Phyllis Schlafly.

How do the Birches feel
about you powdering your nose

in an integrated bathroom?

Well, I imagine the same way
that the militant lesbians

feel about you even powdering yours.

Just think if we had the ERA.

All the pedophiles and perverts
lurking in those stalls

would get to witness
this special moment.

- Oh!
- Oh!

Oh, are you here to
escort me to the stage?

- I'm here with my wife.
- My good luck charm.

You'll need it.

Ms. Friedan is, as you know,

the author of "The Feminine Mystique"

and the mother of the women's movement.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

And is, as I recently
found out, a Peorian.

- Yes.
- Welcome back to Illinois.

Thank you.

Mrs. Schlafly, who is going to speak

from the STOP ERA position,
is a Republican,

active in politics,
and lives here in Illinois.

She is going to speak first.

Well, before I start, girls,

uh, I'd like to thank my husband Fred

for letting me come here today.

He never interferes with
my, uh, civil liberties.

Whenever we have an argument,
he always reminds me

of my constitutional
right to remain silent.

Now let me see a show of hands
of how many girls here...

- Women!
- ... want to be drafted.

- We're women!
- Into combat duty. How many?

- We're women!
- I want to say

- to the women...
- And I think that to speak

- to a certain degree...
- they are too old to be called girls.

- Of hypocrisy...
- Men are called men.

Then in a few months,
we will have an all-volunteer army,

and I do believe that if we
want the same rights as men,

we have to be able to accept
the same responsibilities.

Well, uh, you see,
this is a fundamental difference

between the proponents
and the opponents,

is I don't want
my daughters killed in combat.

- Oh, but your sons you're okay with?
- And the ERA...

- will positively...
- Because I have two sons,

and I don't want them killed in war

- any more than my daughters.
- Ms. Friedan,

it is still Mrs. Schlafly's time.

- Thank you.
- How about we don't send

any of our children into combat?

No, no, no, no, no.

No, you see, uh...

a lot of, uh, naive people
said that after Korea.

You know, we'll never get involved

in another war in, uh, Asia.

But, uh, unfortunately,
I don't know anybody

who has a solution for
ending wars for all time.

You know, I don't have a crystal ball.
Do you?

You keep insisting that a
woman's place is in the home,

but you waltz around
the country decrying us

for trying to open career
opportunities to women,

and this is what I can't stand...
The hypocrisy.

I have always maintained
that women today

have true freedom of choice.

Now we can choose to be a
full-time wife and a mother,

or you can choose to
go into the workforce

on the basis of equal
pay for equal work,

or you can do both at the same time,

because your life is what you make it.

- Oh, is that what you say...
- Now on the American women...

... to the woman who chooses
to be a full-time wife and mother?

- Mm-hmm.
- The housewife that you claim

to care so much about?

Because they are the ones that
are really discriminated against.

American women today are
the luckiest class of people

on the face of the Earth.

- The law does not enforce
- We can do anything

- we want to do.
- a woman's right to be provided

for so long as she's married.

- That is a fairy tale.
- I'm sorry, uh, uh, Chairman,

I thought we were having a debate,
not a free-for-all.

A woman cannot be
insured in her own right

for Social Security,
and if her marriage ends in divorce,

all the work she did in the
home for all those years

is not taken into
account in the settlement.

There is no provision in existing law

to enforce alimony and child support.

But, hey, your life is
what you make of it, right?

Now we have heard a lot of,
uh, emotional oratory

from my, uh, opponent,
but not one single fact

about what the Equal Rights Amendment

- will do to benefit women.
- My opponent

- accuses me of...
- You see, it won't give them

- emotional oratory when she...
- any rights or privileges

- that they don't already have.
- scares women that they should

stop the likes of us

as if we're a communist for
asking that the government

fund childcare centers.

I don't believe

that we should look to the government

and our... our Constitution to
solve our personal problems.

You see, this is the false lure

of the women's liberation movement...

happiness.

Because the fact is, girls,

the ERA will not solve
your personal problems.

It will not hand you a happy home life.

It won't give you a Sunday kind of love,

as the, uh, popular song goes,
and it certainly will not, uh,

keep your husband from
being jealous or petty

or dumping you in your middle age

for a new, younger model
after you have, uh,

devoted yourself to keeping
his home for 20 or 30 years,

because you simply cannot legislate

universal sympathy for
the middle-aged woman.

Now remember this,
before you throw away your youth

and your beauty and your virtue

to join in this new
sisterhood of misery...

You are a traitor to your sex.
You're an Aunt Tom.

Now, uh, you are correct on one count.

I do leave my home on occasion,

and I travel all over the country,

and I meet women from all walks of life,

and you, Ms. Friedan,

are the unhappiest
woman I have ever met.

And you are a witch!

God, I'd like to burn you at the stake!

Oh, no. Well, on the contrary,

I'm pleased that, uh,
Ms. Friedan made that comment

because maybe now people will realize

just how intolerant and intemperate

the proponents of the ERA really are.

Thanks so much for your time.

- Oh.
- Really appreciate it.

- Betty.
- Yes. Uh...

- Ms. Friedan...
- I... I... I can't.

There she is.

You're in it, huh?

But you and Conrad are good.

The investigation's
taking a toll on us both.

If you wanna be happy,
if you wanna be sad,

I'm right here...

and I got cake.

We missed you.

We're doing it.

We're calling it the National
Black Feminist Organization.

- Hmm.
- And we put "National"

in the title just to get folks hooked,

and then they'll break off
and do their own thing.

Two years,
they'll be done with all of it.

- Two years?
- That's all the time folks got

to be into this shit.

Not me, though. I'm a lifer.

The one thing that
everybody could agree on

is that you should be our
first keynote speaker.

Maybe.

Yeah.

Oh, I can't accept you boys
are old enough to drive,

much less get married.

Oh. Don't worry.
I'm perfectly happy living at home,

running around with
commies and floozies.

Oh.

Phyllis!

I just wanna say thank you
for the work you're doing.

- Oh.
- You put Betty Friedan in her place.

Finally, we have our own champion.

Well, thank you so much.

I know. I should shut
my mouth and wear beige,

but my personal color analysis says

I'm a winter person.

Go. Come on.

- You look absolutely stunning.
- Thank you.

- I'd marry her again right now.
- Aw.

- What a special day.
- My son may be getting married,

but all anyone wants to know

is when the Phyllis Schlafly
is arriving.

- Oh.
- You must be on top of the world.

- Congratulations.
- Thank you.

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I didn't mean to scare you.

We got to talking at Flo's.

If you ever need a place
for meetings or anything,

you're welcome to use our offices here.

Thanks.

We'll find something.

Natalie, I'll come down
to watch "Maude,"

but I'm not hungry,
and I don't wanna talk about the...

It's Gloria.

Oh. Hello, Gloria.

If I had to be on the same
stage as that woman...

I would've called her
something worse than "witch."

Yeah, that was restrained for me.

You were right.

We don't get to decide how
the battle lines are drawn

or how the male press portrays us.

I've been thinking about the first time

I read "The Feminine Mystique."

"Why should women accept
this picture of a half-life,

instead of a share in the
whole of human destiny?"

I don't know if I ever told you.

Your book changed my life.

Thank you.

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